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[US] A. Zugsmith Beat Generation 25: He would never let the air out of a friend.
at let the air out of (v.) under air, n.
[US] A. Zugsmith Beat Generation 84: For the sake of melodrama, that hot-air artist would call his own brother a rapist.
at hot-air artist (n.) under hot air, n.
[US] A. Zugsmith Beat Generation 85: ‘They’re the best,’ Georgia said, stringing her companion along.
at string (along), v.
[US] A. Zugsmith Beat Generation 6: You made it quick, amigo.
at amigo, n.
[US] A. Zugsmith Beat Generation 57: These married apples, they want you to punish them for enjoying it.
at apple, n.1
[US] A. Zugsmith Beat Generation 66: I just don’t know what you’re getting at, Francee.
at get at, v.
[US] A. Zugsmith Beat Generation 59: He was dragging his axle in waltz time.
at drag one’s axle (v.) under axle, n.
[US] A. Zugsmith Beat Generation 54: The phony-balony Beatniks.
at phoney-baloney, adj.
[US] A. Zugsmith Beat Generation 59: While you get the bang of all bangs.
at bang, n.1
[US] A. Zugsmith Beat Generation 12: Some girls get a bang out of violence. They can’t enjoy it if they’re not roughed up.
at get a bang (out of) (v.) under bang, n.1
[US] A. Zugsmith Beat Generation 26: I crept up the stairs, and barrelled across the backyard.
at barrel, v.2
[US] A. Zugsmith Beat Generation 134: And what about those beakels [sic] downstairs? [...] they’d fink on their own mother.
at beagle, n.
[US] A. Zugsmith Beat Generation 25: Run Meg to the airport to catch her plane. You can take the Benz.
at Benz, n.
[US] A. Zugsmith Beat Generation 24: What’s biting me is, I can’t blow the joint tonight.
at bite, v.
[US] A. Zugsmith Beat Generation 43: Never before had he put the blocks to a fuzz’s hotsy.
at put the blocks to (v.) under block, n.1
[US] A. Zugsmith Beat Generation 26: ‘Blow, will you?’ he told Jester.
at blow!, excl.2
[US] A. Zugsmith Beat Generation 24: What’s biting me is, I can’t blow the joint tonight, Meg.
at blow the joint (v.) under blow, v.1
[US] A. Zugsmith Beat Generation 75: They said a lot of bobby soxers carried on as if they had a direct line to him in heaven.
at bobby soxer, n.
[US] A. Zugsmith Beat Generation 12: Some of them are knocked into the middle of next week because their old man is boiled.
at boiled, adj.
[US] A. Zugsmith Beat Generation 59: Three Arthur Garretts will drive the finks bongo.
at bongo, adj.
[US] A. Zugsmith Beat Generation 136: Brain him [...] With a chair. With that vase.
at brain, v.
[US] A. Zugsmith Beat Generation 28: Can’t we all give one another a break?
at give someone/something a break (v.) under break, n.1
[US] A. Zugsmith Beat Generation 59: For this one time, we’ll have another Arthur Garrett to buffalo the fuzz.
at buffalo, v.
[US] A. Zugsmith Beat Generation 32: Rajah hadn’t let them bug him.
at bug, v.2
[US] A. Zugsmith Beat Generation 87: Not to any of the homes where he was welcome to bunk. He had no room of his own.
at bunk, v.2
[US] A. Zugsmith Beat Generation 37: He liked to give them the business in full daylight.
at give someone the business (v.) under business, n.
[US] A. Zugsmith Beat Generation 30: He’s clean. We’ve interrogated him.
at clean, adj.
[US] A. Zugsmith Beat Generation 32: What’s cooking, Father-O?
at what’s cooking? under cook, v.1
[US] A. Zugsmith Beat Generation 25: With Jester, the seemingly cool, cool cat.
at cool, adj.
[US] A. Zugsmith Beat Generation 121: But I’d never crack a book. I’d be downstairs in the Pad every night.
at crack the books (v.) under crack, v.2
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